By Dave Hickey When energy costs are increasing by 80% in a quarter, making small adjustments to your energy consumption may feel like a futile exercise – the proverbial Sisyphean* task. While we have little influence on the price we’re charged for energy we can control how much of it we use. Controlling usage There […]
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By Dave Hickey For any business to move successfully from start-up to scale-up it needs to carefully navigate each stage of its growth cycle. So, being aware of which stage of the cycle the business is at, is itself a very important if, for example, if you’re looking to attract funding. The stages of the
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By Dave Hickey Every business should have a business plan. Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Most “bad” business plans share one or more of the problems outlined in previous post here (1-5) or below (6-10):
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By Dave Hickey Every business should have a business plan – because a vision without a plan is just a dream! Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Most “bad” business plans share one or more of
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PLAN NOW TO MINIMISE YOUR 2021 & 2022 TAX BILLS By Dave Hickey It’s Race Week in Galway and, as ever, I was told yesterday: “We won’t feel it now until Christmas”. While it’s still only July, there is something to be said to looking ahead to the end of 2022 to see what can
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In this Edition we look at inflation, interest rates increases and lots of other interesting information. Click here to read more.
By Dave Hickey of DHKN The ECB today announced an increase of 0.5% in its base lending rate, its first hike in rates in 11 years. What will this mean for your business and personal finances as well as your pension plans? What can you do to protect you and your business from the worst
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By Dave Hickey Recently someone asked me why she needed a business plan if she was getting all the funding she needed from friends and relatives. It appeared to me as if she was thinking of a business plan as just a fund-raising tool. In fact, a business plan is much more than that: It’s
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By Dave Hickey In our previous post we looked at some of the underlying challenges of inflation and interest rate rises. Today, three of DHKN’s experts focus on how you can take action now to develop plans to deal with the potential outcomes over the next couple of years. Stephen Crowley, Partner DHKN “The most
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By Dave Hickey The turmoil of the pandemic is almost behind us, and businesses are now facing challenges which, combined, will be bigger and longer-lasting than those experienced over the past two years. Inflation and interest rate increases are the twin tests facing us all over the coming years. These are increasing at rates not
STORM CLOUDS GATHERING FOR BUSINESSES…AGAIN! Read More »
